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St Lucia: University of Queensland Press: 1990, 251pp.
My involvement with Jennifer Rankin’s poetry relates only to the production of her first book, Ritual Shift, the seventeenth in the Gargoyle Poets series of small books, one of whose policies was to introduce new poets in a twenty-four to thirty-six page format which would obviate the need for them to accumul...
Waratah, NSW: Puncher and Wattmann, 2025, 79pp.
This is very much a book of poems about Tasmania but there’s little trace of Hobart or Launceston in it, let alone of the colonial legacy, of the convict era or the massacres. It’s very much about the physical environment and the title, Lithosphere, refers to those parts of the earth’s crust exposed on the uplands. The ...
Lines of Desire (Waratah, NSW: Puncher and Wattmann, 2025, 77pp.) Màthair Beinn (np: Vagabond Press, 2025, 96pp.)
Two poets who both share a dual heritage and use it in different ways. Paul Dawson is of mixed Asian and Australian descent and Eartha Davis comes from a New Zealand and Scottish family. With our obsession with liminal heritages – between gender...
St Lucia: University of Queensland Press: 2025, 152pp.
Readers will be familiar with the outlines of John Kinsella’s work from the three massive volumes in his collected poetry. The subject matter is usually life in a valley in Western Australia, processed through the personal experience of his attempts to understand the intricate interactions of geology, plant- and animal-li...
Canberra: Recent Work, 2025, 245pp.
Brendan Ryan’s poetry has never been especially difficult to read but can be rather difficult to know how to write about. It’s not an uncommon problem and one sees it in writings about someone like Sharon Olds, a much-loved poet who smoothly turns her emotional life into memorable poems. There’s a similar evenness about Ryan’s output whose ...
